Dear fellow spiders...
If you really want a razzle-dazzle website that will have all that and a
bag of chips too, then go ahead and fire up a ning site. Some of us
will join that as well, but I suspect that there are many, many people
who love and depend on the daily postings from arachne... unbidden, but
nevertheless in our mailboxes first thing. I suggest that there could
be some crossover... (on Arachne... "please see...XXX on XXX.ning).
But the simplicity, the familiarity, the down-home feeling of Arachne
can never be replaced.
I am not afraid of new technology. As I climbed the ladder in my
career, my ease with the current technology was always a major factor in
getting the job, but the job was always in something unrelated to
computer technology. As a lacemaker, I'm perfectly happy with the
format that Arachne offers. If another platform were offered, I might
sign on as well. I'm a member of Ravelry, and to my surprise, I
realized I had also signed onto another list for lacemakers! However,
unlike Facebook or Arachne, neither of these sends me an email
indicating that I've had a response to something I wrote, or that
something that I've expressed an interest in has been discussed.... So
whatever you end up with, be sure there's that "ingredient", because I'm
not likely to go sign in every day unless there's something of interest.
Thanks loads, Liz (our patron!) and Avital! I hope Arachne lasts forever!!!
Clay
On 11/2/2011 6:25 PM, The Lace Bee wrote:
I was talking a while back to model soldier retailer here in the UK. He
wanted to put high res pictures and video onto his site - something that his
manufacturer in Hong Kong was interested in doing too.
In the far east and
asia, many of the internet accesses are high speed and can cope with this. In
the UK, we complain when we get just 2 or 3 mps - that's megabytes per
second. What we forget is that there are many places in the States where they
would kill to get such service. It's only 10 years ago that we had only 52
bytes per second dial up.
I am still impressed by the fact that after we
recently upgraded our broadband I was able to download a week's worth of the
Archers in just 15 seconds. Before the upgrade it took 4 minutes. Before we
moved it took 10 minutes. It's a 65mb file.
I would be tearing my hair out
if I had Bev's service - actually I used to tear my hair out when I had Bev's
service. Going back to when Arachne was founded I used to have the posts sent
to my work email. Back then because I worked for a telecoms company my email
and web service was unbelievable. I couldn't do this on my personal email as
it took too long to get any emails.
Yes, we are lowest common demoninator
here because we pander to the lowest access that is needed by our believed
fellow arachnes, but we have the ability to put photos etc on to other places.
I do feel that we should use technologies that can help us and those that
can access them should make the most of them, but we should not exclude those
who cannot.
One other things, and here I'm being selfish. I cannot access
social networking from work because we see it as a security threat. I can
access my email. So when things are bad and I'm stressed, I can take time out
at lunchtime and retreat to the our personal web and talk to the spiders.
Dear spiders, please keep weaving.
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
[email protected]
My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my
website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/
________________________________
From: bev walker<[email protected]>
To: Cynce Williams
<[email protected]>
Cc: Arachne<[email protected]>
Sent:
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 21:23
Subject: Re: [lace] ning or mail
list?/dialup
On dialup, it takes 5 minutes to load 10 seconds of video on
YouTube :)
When Tess made the little video of how to make a leaf, I eventually
saw the whole thing. And David's!
I do belong to chat-rooms including one for
lace where pictures can be
posted, and they load quickly enough, most
transfers make the pictures
small to save bandwidth.
When I want to do a
lengthy download, I find something to do to
babysit the computer (having a
lace pillow handy is excellent) because
there is always a chance the phone
line will hang up partway.
On 11/2/11, Cynce Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
Y'all might think of the people on dial
up. I know my sister can't/won't
look at youtube because it takes too long
for a video to load.
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